Power-utilizing apparatus



J. E. CARROLL.

POWER UTILIZING APPARATUS. APPLICATION r1150 DEC-26,1914.

1,319,823. Patented 001. 21,1919.

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4&5 I INVENTOR WITNESSES q T 1% JOHN E. CARROLL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

POWER-UTILIZING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oct. 21, 1919.

Application filed December 26,1914. Serial No. 879,045.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. CARROLL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Power-Utilizing A paratus, of which the following is a speci cation.

When the explosive power of a gas or vapor is utilized to drive a relatively much heavier fluid, such, for instance, as water, through a conduit or passage-way from one point to another, as from a supply reservoir to a receiving receptacle or chamber, it is usually the case that the force or power due to the momentum of the traveling liquid is not in any way utilized. It is the object of my invention to provide an apparatus whereby and wherein such force or power may be utilized for doing useful work.

The supply of water to the ordinary steam boiler is a familiar example of the failure to use or utilize power due to the passage of a stream of water with more or less speed and rapidity of movement through the passage-way from a supply reservoir to the boiler. The water is drawn from a reservoir, such as a well, as a result of the passage of steam through an injector, the water so drawn from the reservoir being conducted and forced through a conduit to the boiler.

Specifically it is the object of my inventionto provide means whereby the force or power of the water due to its momentum in traveling to the boiler may be employed for the doing of useful work. 7

In order that my invention may be more readily comprehended and fully understood, reference should be had to the accompanying drawing in which I have illustrated one form of a convenient embodiment of apparatus embodying my invention. It will be understood that changes in the de tails of construction may be made within the scope of the claim without departing from my invention.

In the drawings I Figure 1 is a view showing a boiler in end elevation and showing an injector and a mechanism interposed between the injector and the boiler in side elevation and also showing a water supply reservoir;

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the mechanism for utilizing the power or force due to the momentum of the water in passing from the reservoir to the boiler; and

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a boiler having a steam dome 2 from which a pipe 3 leads'and throughwhich steam is conducted to an injector indicated as a whole by thereference numeral 4. Extending from the injector 4 is a pipe 5 which projects into a reservoir of water which may be a well, a tank or any suitable water containing or holding chamber. H 1

When the mechanism ofthe injector is positioned to permit steam to escape from the steam dome 2 through the pipe 3 into the injector it operates in known manner tocausethe water to flow from the reservoir 6 up through the injector and outwardly through a pipe 13 into a pipe. 25. The end of the latter pipe adjacent to the opposing end of the pipe 13 is supported in a bearing 27 formedin the upper end of the supporting standard or pedestal 28.

29 designates a support or pedestal provided withabearing 30 which bearing supports a tubular member 3l provided upon its outer end with an annular flange 32, the said flange constituting what maybe termed a disk.. The tube 25 is revolubly supported in the tubular member 31. The. outer end of the tube 25 is somewhat enlarged as indicated at 33 and is screw-threadedas indicated. y

3d designates a member provided witha central screw-threaded opening 35 which engages the screw-threaded enlarged end 33 of the tube25. The opening 35 isclosed at its out-er'end by means of an integral por tion 36 of the member 34:. Although I have" shown the member Bias being in the form of a disk-likemember it will be understood that'it maybe of any other suitable shape,

formation or construction.

The water or I other liquid, if some other liquid. should be used, which passes through the tubes 13 and 25, passes outwardly therefrom through openings 40 which'communicate with radial openings .or passage-waysel through the membe'r'34. lVhile for convenience of manu facture these openings extend entirely to the periphery of. the =member.,34 yet after the said openings are once formed they are p closed by means of plugs 42. Preferably, however, they should not be closed until after the openings 43 are formed which openings extend from the periphery of the member 34, at right angles to the openings 41, as indicated clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawmgs.

The water and steam, if there should be any of the latter, which pass outwardly through the openings 4] and through the openings 43, strike against the confronting shoulders 45 of the ratchetdike teeth 46 formed upon the inner circumference of the annular member 47.

5O designates a disk-like member which is seated against and secured to the annular member 47 by means of screw-threaded bolts 51. The said disk is provided with a tubular boss 52 into which the end of a pipe 53 projects. The said pipe within the said tubular boss 52 is surrounded by packing 54 which is held in place by means of a gland 55 having screw-threaded engagement with the in terior of the tubular boss 52.

It will be understood that as the water and the steam, if there should be any of the latter, escapes from the openings 43 they strike against the shoulders 45 and that the impact thereof tends to cause rotation either of the annular member 47 and the Parts connected thereto or the members 34 and the parts connected thereto, and if one of these members rotates the other will be held against rotation. In the construction illustrated the member 34 and the pipe 25 are held against rotation by means of the binding screw 56 which is secured in the sleeve 27. The inner end of the said binding screw is clamped against the tube 25 and holds the same against rotation. The parts 25 and 34 being held against rotation it follows that the annular member 47 and the parts 31, 32 and are caused to rotate. The parts 32, 47 and 50 constitute a driving wheel by means of which the power generated may be transmitted by any suitable means, such as a belt, to any suitable point for use or employment.

If it should be desired that the parts 32, 47 and 50 remain stationary the binding screw 57 which is provided in the bearing 30 is screwed into clamping relation against the tubular member 31 and at the same time the binding screw 55 is unscrewed so as to release the tube 25. \Vhen this has been done the tube 25 and the member 34 will rotate, the parts 31, 32 and 50 remaining stationary.

60 designates a driving wheel secured upon the tube 25. It will be understood that a driving band or belt may be passed over this. wheel and employed to transmit power to any point at which work is to be accomplished.

As above described, it is the impact of the water either alone or with the steam, if there should by any chance be any present, against the shoulders 45 which causes rotation of the parts as hereinbefore described.

After the water has operated to drive the parts as hereinbefore described, it moves forwardly through the pipe 53 into the steam boiler 1 in known manner and for a known and well understood purpose. 1

Although I have illustrated my invention in connection with a steam boiler and injector apparatus for supplying the water to the boiler, it should be understood that the same maybe employed in connection with other apparatus and constructions wherein a vapor or gas of any character is employed for causing an injector to operate to supply a liquid, relatively much heavier than the vapor or gas, to a receptacle or chamber of any kind or character.

The essential idea is that there shall be a chamber holding a vapor or gas under compression which when released acts through and by means of an injector or equivalent device to cause a relatively heavy liquid to be transmitted and supplied to the said chamber or receptacle and a device ormechanism, such as a turbine, actuated by such liquid in its passage to such chamber, such actuation enabling the transmission of power to a point where work is to be done or performed.

I claim In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a tubular memher having a disk secured to one end thereof, said disk having radial passage-Ways therein and openings extending from the periphery of said disk to intersect said radial passage-ways, an annular member surrounding said disk and being provided with a series of surfaces arranged to receive impacts from a fluid discharged from the openings, a tubular member for supporting said annular member, the said firstnamed tubular member extending through and being supported thereby, means whereby one or the other of said tubular members may be held against rotation, and means for driving a fluid through the first-named tubular member and against the said surfaces on the said annular member.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have hereunto signed my name this 24th day of November, A. D. 1914.

. JOHN E. CARROLL.

In the presence of- C. E. KLEINFELDER, FLORENCE DEAGON.

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. z Washington, D. G. 

